" treasurer" (we suppose of the Social Alliance), wrote to Thurs- day's papers to say that Mr. Scott Russell is in possession of " the signatures of the Lords," and that he...

tion, supposed to be a little more favourable to France. On condition that the productions of Alsace and Lorraine are admitted into France at a low rate of duty until the end of...

in Corsica. Something or other has evidently occurred in the island, for the fleet has been thither in hot haste, and ohasseurs-a- pied have been ordered to Ajaccio, but no...

and Mr. Forster this week with some- thing of the old Radical intensity of wrath,—and indeed, has, we are strongly disposed to think, overshot its own mark. The country, with...

case.

does, a very able speech, of which the leading features were the very much lower tone in which he spoke of compulsion as compared with the language of the League last year, the...

Now Social Alliance " is involved in a good deal of mystification. Lord Salisbury has admitted that the resolutions were shown to him "confidentially " last June, when he...

T HE Emperor of Germany opened the Reichstag in person on Monday in a lengthy speech. His Majesty told the members that the military budget was not quite ready, but that it...

to the " Old Catholics." It declares that it will protect them and recognize them as Catholics, and that the dogma of the Pope's infallibility is a danger to the State which has...

had been attacked for pusillanimity, he had been attacked in good company,—with Mr. Canning, with Lord Palmerston, with Lord Aberdeen, with Lord Clarendon. He described his...

himself, amidst groat cheering, willing to go to prison rather than pay a rate for the support of denominational schools. Mr. Joseph Cowen, of Newcastle, bitterly attacked Mr....

with Fenians. " General " O'Nie]l and some of his followers have recently attempted a raid upon Manitoba, where they doubtless expected • assistance from the old Riel party....

come over to express the acknowledgments of Paris for the sympathy of Lon- don when, on the raising of the seige, her population seemed in danger of starvation. He was...

Manchester Reform Club, but his speech is reported with such elaborate and almost incredible badness in all the London papers that it is by no means easy to guess what he said....

Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, of which corps he is Colonel, made a most sensible speech about our military position. He thought it improbable that this country would be dragged...

to put down our Army and Navy, and to surrender England at once to the first invader. At least that is the only legitimate inference from its fearfully and wonderfully eloquent...

up, as they think, a solid grievance. When an Irishman catches a fish he sells it, and there is an end of that matter, but there ought not to be an end. The State ought to pay...

is a Free-trader, but on most other questions a decided Conservative, with a leaning towards very " strong " government. He has demanded from the President a carte- blanche, and...

in Chicago, explains the destruction of that city in a line. The roofs are of paper steeped in pitch, and covered with gravel. Slates are strictly protected, and are...

and held to bail to answer the charge of " living lewdly and lascivi- -ously " with sixteen women, —a few of those whom he calls his wives. The penalty for the offence is a term...

of being recast in some sense more agreeable to Roman Catholics than to Protestants, that it is driven in its excitement of mind to deal very unfairly with its own Catholic...

in a speech which reads as if it had been made twenty years ago. He was opposed to any increase of the Army, and in favour of a great reduction in expenditure ; hoped to see a...

new sedative drug, Chloral. It states that it is sold by tons a week, and quotes a letter from Baron Liebig, affirming that one German chemist manufactures and sells half a ton...

MR. GLADSTONE'S FORTHCOMING SPEECH. M R. GLADSTONE must make a great speech at Greenwich. The local dispute, the long preparation, the absence of ordinary political excitement,...

of doubt but that the character and language of the Education League this week at Birmingham is by far the most formidable threat to the Govern- anent, and especially to one of...

the opening of the German Parliament has given great satisfaction to the City, and as the City seldom looks forward more than a single twelve- month, the satisfaction is...

W E have incurred political, intellectual, and moral censure for venturing to believe that Mr. Disraeli's attempt to get a new social movement inaugurated by the Peers was not a...

T HE groat municipal contest in New York loses none of its interest. The New Yorlc Times, which has all along been in the van of the attack, followed up its exposures of the...

VERYTIIING that is worth doing is worth doing well, may be a rule not without its exceptions, but certainly Soldiering is not one of them. It is a truism to say that now, as at...

W E fear we have been unjust to Sir John Hay, the British Minister in Morocco. Immediately after the appear- ance of our article censuring him for resisting the free development...

I N the delightful book about birds which Messrs. Laboucbere and Jesse are translating from the German of Dr. A. E. Brehm* there is a story of a tame crane which differs from...

old by the Scythian: to Darius, son of Hystaspes, was interpreted to signify that unless his men could swim through the water like the fish, or burrow through the ground like...

THE YO-SEMITE VALLEY. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Sun Francisco, September 10. I IIAVE just accomplished a visit to the famous Yo-Senait6 said by Emerson to be the only natural...

THE PEERS AND THE WORKING-MEN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOT4T011.1 Sin,—No one has a right to be surprised that the Liberal papers generally, or the Times particularly, should...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,-1 venture through your columns to suggest that neither the religious liberty of parents nor the consciences of Nonconformist ratepayers...

your leader on the Education question that the Dissenters are still flushed with " dictatorial arrogance," and afflicted with "the most wilful blindness." This is terrible. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFROTATOR.1 Sin,—It is too much to hope that your excellent article on "The Dissenters and the Government," in last week's edition, will con- vince the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Your article upon " Mr. Dieraeli's Flank March " con- tains the following words :—" Greatly as the artizans may stand in need of some...

in North Oxfordshire with the Spectator of this week in my pocket, I remembered that it was just thirty years since I walked over the same ground, and then I had the Spectator...

S111 1 —I think that you have somewhat misapprehended the feel- ings of Liberal Dissenters in relation to the subsidizing of Denominational Schools out of school rates....

a " SPEOTATOR:1 SIR,—Will you allow one who has been a constant reader of your paper for many years to say a few words in regard to the selection of incumbents by parishioners?...

RUSSIA.* THERE has been recently published at Leipzig a pamphlet which well deserves the attention of whoever is curious to know about the present condition of Russia. It is in...

Sticn is the simple—must we add unattractive ?—heading, of as valuable a little compendium of Christian thought as it is rarely, very rarely, our lot to meet with. " Sermon "is...

THERE is only one proper way of reviewing a cookery-book, and that is to try all the receipts in it. Unfortunately this is not pos- sible for anyone under the rank of a writer...

[SECOND NOTICE.] Mn. Jenkins's book seems to us almost more valuable as supple- menting and explaining the Commissioners' Report for the benefit of the Colonial Office, than for...

retranslation of Bede's work, prefaced by a few and somewhat meagre notes about Bede himself, and furnished with ,paginal annotations which, though nothing unusually profound,...

A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. By Id. F. Cusack. (Longman.) —It is much to be regretted that a pains-taking writer should discredit —we really can use no other word—a...

and Farran.)--• There are many readers, doubtless, to whom this little photographic picture of a life akin to their own, but yet strangely different from it, will prove...

Compton Noake. (Chapman and Hall.)—This volume is in part a reprint containing verses previously published under the title of " Songs of the Camp and Barrack-room." In these the...

Bishop of Rottenburg. (T. and T. Clark.)—Mr. Clark, Vicar of Taunton, himself known for theological works of value, has done good service to the Eng- lish reader by bringing...

H. Wratis- law, M.A. (Bell and Daldy. )—This "Embassy " was sent by George of Podiebrad, King of Bohemia, to the Court of France, there to urge on behalf of himself and the...

that the current theology of the day is the rosult of non-natural inter- pretations of the Bible, and he is perfectly confident that, "if some great man would begin his...

there is a demand among readers for these pictures of what is the silliest, if not positively the worst side of University life, for they have continued to be produced from the...

Hoylo. (Sitnpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The substance of Mr. Hoyle's volume— "an omitted chapter in political economy," he calls it—is this : if we could only do without drinking...

the reader. It has for a frontispioce a picture, " Scorpio and Ophiuchus," which looks like one of Zulkiel's "hieroglyphics," and as we go on, we find in it very strange notions...